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Money & Power 2024
The Hockey News' sixth annual Money & Power edition is stocked with interviews and features focusing on the financial side of hockey. Inside, you'll find the Top 100 People of Power and Influence, stories on the impact of the war in Ukraine, the Philadelphia Flyers, the Vegas Golden Knights and much more.
CALGARY FLAMES
NHL VALUATIONS $1.1B FORBES $1.14B SPORTICO $1.25B ROUSTAN OWNERSHIP MURRAY Edwards ALTHOUGH MUCH HAS changed in terms of who is in power below ownership, the top remains the same with the Calgary Flames. The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation is spearheaded by global businessman N. Murray Edwards. Co-owners Alvin Libin, Allan Markin and Jeffrey McCaig are also part of the group, but historically, it has been Edwards sitting in on important calls. Not all of those have gone well, and the franchise is still reeling from the losses of Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk in 2022. Interestingly, though, those outcomes might have finally softened Edwards on his previously rock-hard mantra of avoiding a rebuild at all costs. Even re-tooling had been less than appetizing for an ownership group hell-bent on making the playoffs every season with a…
Women’s Hockey
>1. JAYNA Hefford AGE: 46 / TOP 100: 90 PWHL SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT, HOCKEY OPERATIONS From interim CWHL commissioner to PWHPA and now PWHL leader. Hall of Famer Hefford stuck to the vision of one league and helped make it a reality alongside some power players. >2. MARIE-PHILIP Poulin AGE: 32 / TOP 100: 97 PWHL MONTREAL CENTER ‘Captain Canada’ and an all-around sporting icon – full stop. Poulin has inspired a generation. She’s also a Montreal Canadiens player-development consultant. >3. ANNIE Camins AGE: 50 PWHL VICE-PRESIDENT, HOCKEY OPERATIONS Longtime Chicago Blackhawks exec has helped orchestrate the PWHL’s debut season, beginning with a landmark draft. Camins is a powerhouse in the burgeoning circuit’s front office. >4. HILARY Knight AGE: 34 PWHL BOSTON RIGHT WINGER The numbers don’t lie: Knight is among the greatest international scorers of all-time. It’s criminal it has taken until her mid-30s for…
ARIZONA COYOTES
NHL VALUATIONS $500M FORBES $675M SPORTICO $1.1B ROUSTAN OWNERSHIP ALEX Meruelo IN THE DAYS before the new season and in the wake of an off-season featuring much of the same tumult that has become synonymous with the Coyotes, team owner Alex Meruelo penned an open letter to fans. Meruelo’s message was one of great optimism. Addressing the Tempe arena proposal – voted down by residents in May – Meruelo admitted his disappointment but expressed confidence in hockey’s future in Arizona. “I can’t ask our players to give it their all on the ice if I don’t do the same as the owner,” he wrote. “Our organization can’t ask them to pick themselves up after a loss if we don’t all do the same ourselves.” Priority No. 1 for Meruelo is finding a new and permanent home for…
Bill Hornbuckle
W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: When you were growing up in New England, it’s well-known that you were a Bruins fan. BILL HORNBUCKLE: That’s a fact. We lived outside of Hartford, and my dad was in the insurance business by then, and anything Hartford north was all Boston, Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins all-in. I played hockey only, as a small child, on ponds. But I just love the Bruins, and I love the physicality of the whole thing. And I was into it in a big way. WGR: Jerry Bruckheimer told me that he knew back in the ’90s that Vegas was a great hockey market. So when did you start sort of saying, “Hey, we could do hockey?” BH: I met Jerry in 2005, when I had just become president of Mandalay Bay,…
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